Box 4283.01

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of a loose set of travel diaries and account books kept by Dr. Jonathan Plimpton Green describing his journey to and from Valparaiso, Chile, and documenting the medical work he did while living there in the mid-nineteenth century. Dr. Green was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, to a prominent family of doctors and lawyers in 1819 and earned his medical degree from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1841. He practiced in New York for two...